Pretty Mischievous, the 2023 Kentucky Oaks winner and Eclipse Award champion of her division, has been retired to join the broodmare band for Godolphin, the owner-breeder announced on Thursday evening.

Godolphin shared a video on social media of Pretty Mischievous stepping off the van at her “new home at Gainsborough Farm,” its broodmare branch in Versailles, Ky. 

“Next stop, motherhood!” Godolphin wrote.

Pretty Mischievous, trained throughout her career by Brendan Walsh, retires with a racing record of 13-7-2-3 and earnings of $2,112,560          

John Hendrickson, who, along with his late wife Marylou Whitney was a Thoroughbred industry personality and philanthropist, died unexpectedly Monday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He was 59.

Fort Erie has announced that its marquee race, the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, the middle leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, will go Sept. 10 as scheduled.

Woodbine traditionally runs the opening Triple Crown race, the $1 million King’s Plate, which was postponed from last Saturday to this Friday due to heavy rainfall that created unsafe track conditions.  

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - A quartet of Grade 1 races, three of them sprints and the fourth a long-time fixture on the turf, will serve as a fitting prelude to the $1.25 million Travers, the main event on Saturday’s 14-race program at Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Kenny McPeek has already made a bit of history this year by winning the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks in the same year, becoming the first trainer to accomplish the feat since Ben Jones did it in 1952.

Now, three months later, McPeek will try to make some more history when he sends out his Kentucky Oaks winner Thorpedo Anna against seven 3-year-old males in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes as she attempts to become the first filly since Lady Rotha in 1915 to accomplish the feat.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The rapid development of Sunset Glory from maiden winner in April to minor stakes winner at Del Mar last Friday will lead to an appearance in a graded stakes this fall.

The Grade 2 Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 5 is considered a realistic goal for Sunset Glory, who won her stakes debut in the CTT-TOC Stakes at 1 3/8 miles on turf at Del Mar on Friday for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Bruce Treitman and trainer Michael McCarthy.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Grade 1 winner Sweet Azteca will stay home this weekend to run for a $100,000 purse in the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap at Del Mar rather than ship to Saratoga for a shot at a $500,000 purse in the Grade 1 Ballerina on Saturday at Saratoga.

“We gave a lot of thought to going back there,” trainer Michael McCarthy said Sunday. “I think, ultimately, the difference was the Breeders’ Cup is held here (Del Mar) in November.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Anarchist, winner of the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Handicap a year ago at Del Mar, has a bigger purse to aim for rather than defend his title in the sprint scheduled for Saturday.

Instead, the 5-year-old is headed to South Korea for the Group 3, $1 million Korea Sprint on Sept. 8 at Seoul Racecourse. After a sharp workout Sunday at Del Mar under jockey Edwin Maldonado, trainer Doug O’Neill said it is full speed ahead to South Korea.

Anarchist worked five furlongs in 1:00. But it was the way he did it that impressed O’Neill and Maldonado.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Arabian Knight, last year’s winner of the Grade 1 Pacific Classic and fourth in his recent comeback in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap, will cut back to one turn for the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Stakes on Saturday at Del Mar.

The addition of Arabian Knight makes the seven-furlong Pat O’Brien arguably the race of the meet.

Rich Strike, the 2022 Kentucky Derby winner, has suffered another setback in his longshot attempt to make it back to the races and his future will likely be determined in the next 60 days, owner Rick Dawson said Sunday.

Rich Strike, who had spent the last two months in Saratoga and had four workouts under the tutelage of trainer Bill Mott, has a new injury to his left foreleg, Dawson said. The horse will be on medication for a 30-day period and then, following another 30 days off medication, an ultrasound will be performed to determine how the issue is healing, Dawson said.